Quote Originally Posted by danielkessler
That works, but doesn't bring in a_lname because there's not a pipe after the comma - but the comma does the right thing
I'm sorry, I forgot to type the pipe after ','

Not reason for it not to work... a ColdFusion issue perhaps?... can you trick ColdFusion to show you the query is trying to submit?

Quote Originally Posted by danielkessler
It's the order that they were entered, so it's the UID publicationa_id
So... if a publication has three authors you will have three entries in publications_authors, all of them with the same publicationa_id value, am I right?

If YES... you do not have an order there, Oracle might retrive first any of the three entries matching the key.